MLMish

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adjective

Resembling or characteristic of a multi-level marketing (MLM) system.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjectiveMLMish (comparative more MLMish, superlative most MLMish)

comparative more MLMish · superlative most MLMish

  1. rareResembling or characteristic of a multi-level marketing (MLM) system.

    I'm totally paraphrasing here, but the whole "points" thing spooked me a bit, seemed MLMish to me.

    2003 May 3, Jester, “Re: Merchant accounts? Looong”, in alt.wholesale (Usenet)
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    [> who is this annoying twit?] Somebody plugging one of those annoying MLMish ads-all-over sites where you get credit for dragging people in.

    1999 September 13, Deborah Stevenson, “Re: What's Wrong Is Wrong”, in rec.equestrian (Usenet)

    I wouldn't want a "dot-biz" domain name anyway, the word "biz" looks too spammish, MLMish and pyramid-schemish to me.

    2002 July 10, Ben Bradley, “Re: Monster Cable Sues Madmartian.com”, in rec.audio.pro (Usenet)

Origin

From MLM (“multi-level marketing”) + -ish.

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APA

MLMish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/MLMish

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Chicago

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